Template:Realworld Randolph "Randy" T. Sharp (born 19 June 1965; age 58) is a digital visual effects artist who specializes in modeling, lighting and rendering for feature films. While in the employ of Digital Domain, he has contributed to the production of Star Trek Nemesis, among others co-building with Jay Barton the Nemesis version of the Sovereign-class CGI model, as well as building the CGI model of the Argo for that movie. [1](X)
Hailing from Santa Clara County, California, Sharp did not start out in the motion picture industry, but worked for ten years as a 3D CAD designer for the semiconducter equipment manufacturer Applied Materials, before changing venue. In 1999 he joined Foundation Imaging and has worked as CGI prop modeler/modeling supervisor on their television productions Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999), Max Steel (2001), and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (2002). While Foundation was at the time already deeply involved with the Star Trek productions, Sharp was not part of the Star Trek team, he instead mostly working as an instructor at the Foundation Institute, Foundation's own in-house instructional facility. [2]
Upon closure of Foundation Imaging in 2002, Sharp moved over to Digital Domain, Nemesis being one of the first projects he worked on, and has remained in their employ ever since. As (senior) modeler/supervisor he has worked on big budget productions such as The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Beowulf and I Am Legend (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Watchmen, G-Force, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), TRON: Legacy (2010), with Oblivion and 47 Ronin (2013) being some of his more recent work.
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- Randy Sharp at LinkedIn.com